Photography Gallery

Selected Artistsfrom the Gallery Collection

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Jean-michel Berts

Jean-Michel Berts collects the essence of cities. His glance is there to remind us of the grandeur of civilizations. The abstraction of characters makes it possible to put human construction forward and thus reanimate timelessness, whether Paris, New York, Venice or Tokyo. Jean-Michel Berts prefers to take pictures early in the morning because, as he likes to say, “during this period of time, crossing emotions, feelings and atmosphere, this is always when the images come to me.”

The richness of Jean-Michel Berts photographs also comes from his technique. He uses the method of Ansel Adams called The Zone System. With an exposure time between nine seconds and ten minutes, this method of overexposing negatives and under-developing them allows a strong density, enhancing the contrast in black and white. Sous Les Etoiles Gallery also introduced a black and white carbon pigment collection. His unique vision of mystifying light compliments the carbon pigment’s rich deep blacks and infinitely subtle tonal variations giving a tribute to the early twentieth century Pictorialist movement.

Despite a promising scientific career, Jean-Michel Berts chose a different path - to become a photographer. With his first Rolleiflex, he became sensitive to the effects of light. Since the eighties he has worked as a still life photographer. While involved in this field, he pursued a body of work with a more personal focus, called City Portraits.

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The New York, Paris and Tokyo collections consists of Carbon Pigment Prints and Gelatin Silver Prints

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david zimmerman

David Zimmerman is an American artist born in 1955 in Milwaukee, WI. He has received a number of awards and recognition for his work over the years, including the Sony World Photography Awards L’Iris D’or Grand Prize for his work in the deserts of the Southwest U.S. He currently works between New York City and Taos, New Mexico.

The interaction between space and identity is a strong concern of the photographer David Zimmerman. With acuteness and talent, he explores the territories made by contiguity, infinity and exclusion where the human being is vulnerable.

With his very bright and beautiful Desert series, the sublime and immaculate immensity is another reference to a land becoming desolate.

“The sometimes tranquil, sometimes fierce nature of the desert, and my own response and interaction with these environments inspired the first set of photographs. Beyond witnessing the sheer beauty and magnitude of the landscape, I began to feel a sense of the fragile balance of man’s presence on the land. The desert can be haunting; in the dark, in the heat or in a storm, I feel my own vulnerability” said the photographer.

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With Last Refuge, David Zimmerman brings us to New Mexico’s vast desert, where a community of people, who by choice or by circumstance, live in a place with no electricity or water. These people are not outcasts or drifters however - on the contrary; they are quite happy to live on the fringe, as far as possible from the mainstream. Their homes are primitive shelters fashioned from good intentions, scraps, and eventually clothing. As the weight of the roofs eventually collapsed on homes, people moved on. “There is a hidden beauty in many things, and the pile of abandoned clothing attracted me at first by its palette and form and its odd 2-dimensionality - having been beaten for decades by the relentless desert climate“ said the photographer. Clothing is the primary protection for human beings, and when nothing else is left; it stands as their last land and home. In a surgical close-up and focus on garments, with the density, the contrast, and the sharpness of all details, his work appears to be a true archeology of the human soul.

Even though the clothes are damaged or forgotten, the remnants depict an individual challenge, an individual journey questioning our own identity and how to accept and overcome a fluctuating reality.Zimmerman’s series reveals the balance between a wandering and sedentary life. Here lives the desire to escape, an ability to settle and the strength to move forward.

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The Last Refuge collection consists of Archival Pigment Prints

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J in-Ya hUanG

Jin-Ya Huang’s photographs resonate with a rhythm while their abstraction paves the way for an entirely new form of representation. “These abstract, complex, and intimate images examine memories and explorations into my childhood and growing experiences as a Taiwanese American” explains Huang. As she captures symbolic lines, Jin-Ya Huang gathers remote memories in order to save them from loss and overcome her past. In fact, these autobiographical works called Remote incorporate natural occurrences, modern technology, and, in some instances, elements of her own body.

Upon arrival to the United States after being raised in Taipei, Taiwan, until the age of 13, Jin-Ya Huang was inspired to remember her childhood and relate it to her new life. As she struggled with her East-West identity, dealing with issues of being an Asian woman in America, Huang realized this was a subject she wanted to address in her work. She found her translation through abstract photography, by which she is able to convey her history with meaning, hold on to the present, and project the future.

The work of Jin-Ya Huang part of privante and museum collections, has been exhibited in several solo and group show in United States.

remoteThe Remote collection consists of Lambda Prints Mounted on Diasec

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harUna Kawanishi

With the series Call Sign Haruna Kawanishi introduces us to an allegorical and urban interpretation of Snow White. The apple drove Little Snow White to death by just one bite, and it also chased Adam and Eve from The Garden of Eden. A woman is moving up and down, in parallel, and going around connections between external worlds.

“Haruna Kawanishi might be one of the artists who express her life in her works. The melody played by the plural personalities in the work, their glances which never come across each other, the carefully selected colors and tones like the touch of tender skin, the time axis punctually flown over the story, all of them are delicately woven in the context of her original world” says Naoko Otha, gallery director of Gallery 21 in Tokyo.

Born in Tokyo, in 1979, Haruna Kawanishi is Graduate from Nihon University College of Art in 2002. Haruna Kawanishi got in photography in 2005, since then, she participated in the Vendome Photography Festival in 2008 and won the 2009 International Photography Award in Los Angeles.She currently resides and works in Tokyo, Japan.

call signThe Call Sign collection consists of Archival Pigment Prints

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Kiiro

This lyrical series titled Symphony shines a ray that not only distinguishes the particular details of the subject, but also brings with it a narrative aspect to the cosmos. These photographs depict a fragile and stirring existence which exhibits uniqueness through colors that are vibrant, strong, and shine brilliantly with the forces of life.

The photomontage technique contributes to reinforcing the photographers vision, – layering the images over and over, the photographs are strengthened with a new time and space dimension.

Kiiro came to the fore in 2010 with his series Dream and Dreams2, which have been exhibited at Ber Neue and the Hanjiro Gallery, both in Tokyo. Symphony was exhibited at the New York Photo Festival in May 2011.

Kiiro was also part of the group show Breezeless dedicated to Contemporary Japanese photography, hosted by Sous Les Etoiles gallery in June 2011.

Born in Yokohama in 1978, Kiiro graduated from Meisei University. He currently lives and works between Tokyo and Yokohama.

symphonyThe Symphony collection consists of Archival Pigment Prints

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wolfram rUoff

The travels of Wolfram Ruoff are always very intense with long walks across cities, each time leading to new and different sensations. Ruoff absorbs these new locations to capture their most intimate contours. The mood of a city is a complex story. “I think in shapes and lines. I try to understand the people while I am analyzing the interaction between them, the function and effect on them by architecture“ says the photographer. “There is something that attracts me very intensely… It’s like a physical thrill, something which takes me in his grip.“

Wolfram Ruoff, previously an architect, works with an abstraction of 2D imagery, expressing light and depth with the straightness of a technical line. Used as a citation of form, the lines in his photographs strengthen the frames. Specific post-processing of the photographs shifts the viewers focus to emphasized details and a temporal compression of space, causing the past to become the present. Transforming the city into a space of pictures, the images gain density to build a new reference.

As a native of Munich, Wolfram Ruoff began his professional career as an instructor at the Workshop Union. He later received a degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Munich, which fueled him to open an independent architecture and photography practice in 1993.

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reiner riedler

fake holidaysThe Fake Holidays collection consists of C-Prints

Reiner Riedler’s series Fake Holidays, takes us to the heart of a society of standardized leisure where foreign places are fabricated into local spaces in which we can stage our own life histories. Replicas of the greatest touristic landscapes in the world discard space, time and reality, arousing a sense of adventure and a taste for the exotic without the journey or the risk.

Since 1989, Reiner Riedler, as a documentary photographer, has dealt with important topics of the present day. His view always centers on the human being in his environment. Fake Holidays has been shown in many places including, Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, at the European Month of Photography exhibitions in Paris and Bratislava, and at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan.

Currently exhibited at Clervaux - Cité de l’Image (Luxembourg), Fake Holidays will also be shown in 2013, during the Month of Photography in Denver (CO) and in Florida in the art gallery of the Miami International Airport (MIA).

In 2010, Riedler’s work was selected to be part of the exhibition, Dreamlands – From Amusement Parks to Cities of Tomorrow at Centre Pompidou in Paris (France), curated by Quentin Bajac, the new Chief Curator of Photography at the MoMA.

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maGdalena solÉ

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Magdalena Solé is a social documentary photographer. She is known for her sensitive expressions of culture through distinctive color artistry. The tonality in her images maps the experience of her work.

Whether richly saturated or time worn, Magdalena uses color to encapsulate a range of feelings and its tonality maps the experience of her work. Her projects span the globe. “The Mississippi Delta” is an exploration of communities in the South. She tells the story of people who make do with little. She shows their living conditions with dignity, even though a sense of lethargy prevails, a quietness and silence that characterizes the South is palatable.

The Delta images have been created for a book titled “New Delta Rising,” distributed by the University Press of Mississippi. It has won the Silver Award in 2011 at PX3 Prix de la Photographie in France. Most recently her photographs of the Mississippi Delta have been selected as a PDN Photo Annual 2011 Finalist. Magdalena Solé is also winner of the Silver Prize 2011 at Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

Born in Spain, raised in Switzerland, she arrived in New York City in 1984, where she lives with her family. She speaks seven languages.

Mississipi Delta is a collection of Archival Pigment Prints

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ichiGo sUGawara

The series Bright Forest presents a true figure of nature, the reflection of the world and the way of living as a human being. Sugawara’s pursuit of perfection drove him to challenge several different alternative processes as shown with his master and unique piece called Shodon.

Questioning the orderly method of light and photography, he began to explore the wet collodion process as a way of giving his work new insight. By combining this vintage process with the digitalizing method, Sugawara is finding a way to regenerate light as “another form of light”.

The Tsubaki collection (meaning camellia in Japanese) have a special status in the tea ceremony, which was developed as a transformation process of the self, growing with its own aesthetic based on quietness, respect and harmony. These symbols unify and connect each other through a gradual and psychological experience, forming bridges between their vision, meaning and hidden sense.

Ichigo Sugawara focuses on symbolic landscapes, silent still life and portraiture. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, USA, The National Library of France in Paris, The Kobe Fashion Museum in Kobe, Japan and The Gunma Prefectural Museum of History.

Bright forestShodon is an unique piece, an Original Glass Plates. The Tsubaki collection consists of Platinum Prints

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wendY Paton

Visages de Nuit is a body of work consisting of a series of gelatin silver, black and white candid night images that are intended to provoke compelling and mysterious emotions of uncertainty. Those nocturnal portraits are both intimate and familiar. Intrigued by the mysterious and ever-changing nature of human personalities and their individual choices of expression, Paton was compelled to use people as her creative communication conduit. She did not plan out the details of this series in advance, instead allowed the creative process to evolve.

While in the throws of a successful ground breaking career training and driving standard bred race horses in New York. Wendy’s formal photographic training began in the early’ 90 at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Her interest in night photography peaked years later while studying with noted night photographer Michael Kenna, and the French photographer Lucien Clergue. In 2004, she opened studio and darkroom in Rosemont, NJ and began printing her own gelatin and platinum images.

Paton’s work is in private collections both in Europe and in the United States. She is the recipient of the 2009 Center National Editor’s Choice Photography Adward (Santa Fe, NM). In 2013, her book Visages de Nuit published by Kehrer Verlag will be released in the United States.

visages de nuitThe Visages de Nuit collection consists of Selenium Tone Silver Prints

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Gianfranco Pezzot

Gianfranco Pezzot started his artistic aspirations at the Drama Accademy in Venice, Italy. Although his career path later led him to photography, Pezzot has always been interested in the ways we shape, use, and experience the environments we create.

Having always felt the need to research to the farthest extent for his work, the Resorts series emphasizes the relationship between our economical need for tourism and the lasting effects it plays on the environments we inhabit.

Ginafranco Pezzot’s work has been published in several books and magazines like K*MoPA Photographs by the Next Generation, Eyemazing, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art Exhibitons, and Tiger Art Magazine.

Living in Italy, the photographer is pursuing a new mixed media project based on photography, collage, and text.

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ronan GUilloU

Catching places, cities, glances: Ronan Guillou translates his pleasure and desire for keeping traces of them during his walks. Cities, and the people who animate them, are the basis of his humanistic approach. Guillou’s personal work records moments of ordinary life, where men and women are photographed during their daily routines in urban landscapes. Initially influenced by cinematic environments and the aesthetics of American cities, Guillou feels affection and empathy for his characters, giving the images a pictorialist and poetic depth.

Ronan Guillou received first prize in 2007 for his series “Passage,” presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris (France), and was nominated in January 2008 for the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie. Ronan Guillou continues to work on this series, based on his travels in the United States. In Between, was his first exhibition in New York.

His first book titled Angel released in French and in English in 2011 is available at the gallery.

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BrUno Bertrand-frezoUl

In 1991 after studying photography in Nimes, South of France, Bruno Bertrand-Frezoul began an assistant position in Arles under the guidance of French photographer Lucien Clergue. Wanting to improve his skills even further, he worked with Serge Gal, founder of the Photography School “Image Ouverte”, on black and white photography approaches. Influenced by the works of Ansel Adam’s Zone System and different processing techniques he began to develop his own personal style.

Manipulating negatives directly with paint and burn effects in the darkroom, Bruno Bertrand-Frezoul also began to scratch compositional elements away. Seduced by the experience, scratching has since become his landmark. By brutalizing his negatives he depicts the parallels of violence in our world. Lending substance with scratch processes, a new vision is given to black and white photography.

He showcases his illustrative approach with his urban series of New York. Taken between 2006 and 2007 the emotional imagery embodies a vintage quality, evoking a timeless sensitivity, rousing up memories of days long gone.

scratching new York Scratching New York is a collection of Archival Pigment Prints

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laUrent zYlBerman

A Journey in Tibet is a series based on a 15-day mission through “The Top of the World”, between Lhasa, Shigatze, Giangtze and Namso Lake. This photographic journal describes the culture’s vulnerability, allowing us to discover significant internal contradictions of China’s policy for its “autonomous territory.” Each photo solicits strange, unexpected and profound poetry. This awe-inspiring environment in extreme conditions, settled by a very sparse population conveys a feeling of gravity and greatness.

Hitch-hicking to New York City via Greenland, the photographer Laurent Zylberman finally settled during the 80’s in Mexico, China, India where he was reporting for Sygma and Asiaweek eager to show the social and industrial development of these areas. Back in Europe in 1997, he worked on his own plans exhibiting while creating Graphix-Images a photo agency. His journey all over the world allow him to cast a look aside what he can or even what he is authorized to capture with his camera.

The series A Journey in Tibet is part of the book “Tibet, The Last Scream” written by Eric Meyer, an accredited China correspondent for various francophone medias. The publication of this diary and photobook, will be released in 2012 in three languages and countries (USA, France, and Spain).

a Journey in tibetA Journey in Tibet is a collection of Archival Pigment Prints

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soPhie delaPorte

In this series Early Fashion Work, Sophie Delaporte has achieved an accomplished style, a photographic language where sweetness balances innocence and determination outweighs diversion.The depth of color, staging, gestures and simple fun of her imagery evoke the world of storytelling. The photographer likes to imagine situations that do not exist, creating unusual combinations between the image and the purpose it serves.

“A fashion photograph capable of exceeding the lifetime of a monthly magazine requires a certain duplicity. This duplicity is the photographer’s who undertakes selling a product while hiding the secret ambition of creating art. The fashion photograph defines itself between the lines of this dichotomy...Some of these young photographers - and Sophie Delaporte is the most shining example - keep the evidence of a certain ambivalence between the limitations of both cultural and creative in the genre they have chosen. In 1994, when I discovered the work of Sophie Delaporte, it fascinated me.” - Martin Harrison, photography critic

Born in 1971 in Paris, Sophie Delaporte studied photography and film at the art school Louis Lumière in Paris. After graduating, she moved to London and started to work for the English press. During the 90’s, her first publications appeared in I-D magazine.

early fashion work Early Fashion Work is a collection of Archival Pigment Prints

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Artists represented:

Jean-Michel Berts

David Zimmerman

Jin-Ya Huang

Haruna Kawanishi

Kiiro

Wolfram Ruoff

Reiner Riedler

Magdalena Solé

Ichigo Sugawara

Wendy Paton

Gianfranco Pezzot

Ronan Guillou

Bruno Bertrand-Frezoul

Laurent Zylberman

Sophie Delaporte

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